Subject: RE: Assessment in math courses
From: Lindsey, Dr. Charles (clindsey@fgcu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 14:35:34 EST
So, I see some examples of assessments that are not evaluations (sort of).
Can you give an example of an evaluation that is not an assessment?
Chuck Lindsey, Ph.D. clindsey@fgcu.edu
Director of General Education
Associate Professor and Program Leader, Mathematics
Florida Gulf Coast University
10501 FGCU Blvd South
Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
Phone: (941) 590-7168 FAX: (941) 590-7200
http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vern Kays [SMTP:vkays@richland.cc.il.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:30 PM
> To: Lindsey, Dr. Charles
> Cc: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
> Subject: RE: Assessment in math courses
>
> Assessment and Evaluation are often considered the same thing. They are
> not. I do many types of assessment at various levels, individual,
> department, college. I also can sometime do evaluation. Evaluation
> implies I have the power to influence something like a grade, tenure,
> certification, and so on. Sometimes evaluation and assessment go on at
> the
> same time and are even the same instrument. When I give a test I am
> assessing and evaluating my students learning. When I give a writing
> activity like a journal I am mostly assessing what they know. I may
> evaluate the quality of their self-knowledge and their effort but I do not
>
> evaluate at the same level as when I am testing. I test and evaluate in
> several different ways: individual (during class time), group (during
> Class
> Time), Individual (Take-Home), and Group (Outside of class). I ask
> student
> to assess the quality of their learning, and the quality of their group
> interactions but I do not put much evaluative emphasis on the instrument.
>
> There is also the issue of Summative and Formative Evaluation, where and
> how and when is always an issue.
>
> At 01:39 PM 02/29/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'm puzzled--how does one assign grades without doing assessments?
> >
> >Chuck Lindsey, Ph.D. clindsey@fgcu.edu
> >Director of General Education
> >Associate Professor and Program Leader, Mathematics
> >Florida Gulf Coast University
> >10501 FGCU Blvd South
> >Fort Myers, FL 33965-6565
> >Phone: (941) 590-7168 FAX: (941) 590-7200
> >http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cohen, Deborah [SMTP:dcohen@jt.cc.va.us]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 12:39 PM
> > > To: mathedcc@archives.math.utk.edu
> > > Subject: Assessment in math courses
> > >
> > > Are any of you currently involved in assessment activities in your
> classes
> > > or departments? If so, what sorts of assessment techniques are you
> using,
> > > and what sorts of results have you found? If you're not interested in
> > > assessment in your classes, why not? Any opinions out there about why
> > > math
> > > faculty are (or at least SEEM) so resistant to doing assessment?
> > > Thanks, DC
> > > (a 10-year veteran math faculty member who just became an
> administrator!)
> > >
> > > Deborah L. Cohen
> > > Coordinator of Assessment, Research, and Planning
> > > John Tyler Community College
> > > 13101 Jefferson Davis Highway
> > > Chester, VA 23831
> > > email: dcohen@jt.cc.va.us
> > > Phone: 804.796.4174
> > > FAX: 804.796.4163
> > > Web: www.jt.cc.va.us
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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